Database accounts are an important tool to assist you with long-term research and to manage information. With the exception of the My Library account, where you log in with your name & V number, you will need to create your own account on the site after you enter through the library's access. Specific features vary, but typically the accounts allow you to
Gathers your WOU library checkout records, including Summit & Interlibrary Loan orders. Under "preferences," opt in to save your checkout history from now onward.
EasyBib is an online tool that helps you collect citation information, keep track of your sources, take notes, outline, and generate a references list in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian styles.
Save searches and make lists of materials in world-wide libraries.
EBSCO is the vendor that delivers many of our databases, such as Academic Search Premier, MLA International Bibliography, Professional Development Collection (for educators), the Teacher Reference Center, and many others.
Set alerts for when new pages come on the free web that meet your search criteria; read your RSS feeds; save items from Google Books to my library (not related to WOU's My Library), use lots of other online tools.
and CiteULike 
Save your favorite websites to a online bookmarking & social networking site and access them from any computer. They provide browser buttons to make it simple to bookmark and tag a page with as many keywords as you want, or you can connect to your bookmarking site via the ubiquitous AddThis
or ShareThis
icons. Other features include seeing what sites other people are bookmarking, setting up networks of fellow users of the service, and sharing your groups of bookmarks. Delicious is a generalist site, while CiteULike focuses on scholarly publications and on grabbing all of the required information for proper citation formatting.
